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one and all

What’s most meaningful for me is finding wholeness where previously there was only brokenness, fragmentation – ultimately to find and feel One Self, One Spirit, One World, with all its variety, diversity, and plurality, but underlain with a seamless Unity.
We live in a Uni-Verse – a mass of things, events, and processes deeply connected at the most fundamental level, so that everything is connected to everything else. The discovery of this Nonduality, the Supreme Identity (the identity of the individual being and the ALL), releases the pain and suffering of separation, fragmentation, partiality.
At no time has the discovery of this Supreme Identity been more urgently needed than in today’s world gone global. We need individuals who can not only think globally but identify globally, feel globally, be globally – that is, awaken from a cramped identity as the isolated organism and find instead an identity with the One and All. Only from that perspective can global problems and issues be fully seen, let alone addressed and solved.
What the world is suffering from most right now is a lack of global perspective which can see systematically from the view of Planet, Inc. – and not just from self or family or state or nation, but from the perspective of the planet as a whole. Until that happens, humanity is fated to repeat the same broken, fractured points of view. Although they may seem to be helping, those perspectives actually make global problems worse, for the simple reason that in not being seen globally, the problems themselves can’t be seen accurately. So the same fragmented “solutions” are repeated over and over again, in numerous different guises, none of them integral (or truly global), and thus none of them truly effective.
What’s most meaningful to me is finding wholeness where previously was found only partialness – seeing the patterns that connect everything on this planet with every other. To feel this wholeness deeply in my own being is to feel meaning penetrate my very soul, vibrating my existence to the core with value and vision and goal. I act on this wholeness in everyday life simply by finding meaning in everyday actions and feeling a profound blessedness in the midst of the madness.
May you find such wholeness in your life, and thus find meaning coursing through your veins with every heartbeat. With that, this planet just might stand a chance.
– Ken Wilber


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